Judith Surkis is a Member of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Sexing the Citizen is a carefully researched book that provides a fresh perspective on public debates and policies related to masculinity, morality, and citizenship in Third Republic France. Judith Surkis's clear and engaging style will appeal to readers in a variety of disciplines including history, gender studies, and French studies.(Nineteenth-Century French Studies) Judith Surkis's Sexing the Citizen expands the field of gender studies in French history by focusing on the ways in which republic educators imagined, regulated, and reflected upon the meanings of male adolescence, adult manhood, and monogamous marriage in the founding decades of the Third Republic.(Journal of Modern History) Judith Surkis's masterful study of conjugality in the Third Republic's efforts to establish, affirm, and regulate its new citizens' heterosexual masculinity reminds us how powerfully different modes of interpretation can shift the ground of historical understanding.(French Politics, Culture & Society) This deeply researched and powerfully argued book demonstrates how a masculinity that was apparently in 'crisis' nonetheless succeeded in maintaining material and symbolic power.(American Historical Review)

• IntroductionPart I: Affective Government1. Moral Education, the Family, and the State2. Liberal DisciplinePart II: The Bachelor's Vice3. Wasted Youth4. Life and the MindPart III: Emile Durkheim and Desirable Regulation5. The Limits of Desire6. The Sacralization of HeterosexualityPart IV: Preserving Men7. Veneral Consciousness and Society8. Hygienic CitizensEpilogueBibliographyIndex

Judith Surkis is a Member of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Sexing the Citizen is a carefully researched book that provides a fresh perspective on public debates and policies related to masculinity, morality, and citizenship in Third Republic France. Judith Surkis's clear and engaging style will appeal to readers in a variety of disciplines including history, gender studies, and French studies.(Nineteenth-Century French Studies) Judith Surkis's Sexing the Citizen expands the field of gender studies in French history by focusing on the ways in which republic educators imagined, regulated, and reflected upon the meanings of male adolescence, adult manhood, and monogamous marriage in the founding decades of the Third Republic.(Journal of Modern History) Judith Surkis's masterful study of conjugality in the Third Republic's efforts to establish, affirm, and regulate its new citizens' heterosexual masculinity reminds us how powerfully different modes of interpretation can shift the ground of historical understanding.(French Politics, Culture & Society) This deeply researched and powerfully argued book demonstrates how a masculinity that was apparently in 'crisis' nonetheless succeeded in maintaining material and symbolic power.(American Historical Review)

• IntroductionPart I: Affective Government1. Moral Education, the Family, and the State2. Liberal DisciplinePart II: The Bachelor's Vice3. Wasted Youth4. Life and the MindPart III: Emile Durkheim and Desirable Regulation5. The Limits of Desire6. The Sacralization of HeterosexualityPart IV: Preserving Men7. Veneral Consciousness and Society8. Hygienic CitizensEpilogueBibliographyIndex

Judith Surkis is a Member of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Sexing the Citizen is a carefully researched book that provides a fresh perspective on public debates and policies related to masculinity, morality, and citizenship in Third Republic France. Judith Surkis's clear and engaging style will appeal to readers in a variety of disciplines including history, gender studies, and French studies.(Nineteenth-Century French Studies) Judith Surkis's Sexing the Citizen expands the field of gender studies in French history by focusing on the ways in which republic educators imagined, regulated, and reflected upon the meanings of male adolescence, adult manhood, and monogamous marriage in the founding decades of the Third Republic.(Journal of Modern History) Judith Surkis's masterful study of conjugality in the Third Republic's efforts to establish, affirm, and regulate its new citizens' heterosexual masculinity reminds us how powerfully different modes of interpretation can shift the ground of historical understanding.(French Politics, Culture & Society) This deeply researched and powerfully argued book demonstrates how a masculinity that was apparently in 'crisis' nonetheless succeeded in maintaining material and symbolic power.(American Historical Review)

• IntroductionPart I: Affective Government1. Moral Education, the Family, and the State2. Liberal DisciplinePart II: The Bachelor's Vice3. Wasted Youth4. Life and the MindPart III: Emile Durkheim and Desirable Regulation5. The Limits of Desire6. The Sacralization of HeterosexualityPart IV: Preserving Men7. Veneral Consciousness and Society8. Hygienic CitizensEpilogueBibliographyIndex